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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan
Grove Press
Grove Press
In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has...
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What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"
Erwin Schrodinger
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one...
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's Chaplain , everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of...
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James Lovelock
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence...
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Richard C. Lewontin
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.
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Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Marc Hauser
Ecco
Ecco
Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender,...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Random House
Random House
Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at...
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Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the nature of Nature (Sciencewriters)
Chelsea Green Publishing
Chelsea Green Publishing
At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essaysâmany never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human...
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